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by vessenes 10mo ago
To quote McEnroe, commentating Wimbledon this year: "Father Time, undefeated." Djokovic is mentioned in the article and has only just ended his dominant era, and is still ranked 4th in the world at 38. So we did get some very long
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Samba was arguably the way Linux snuck into corporations in the late 90s. Microsoft’s server offerings were truly terrible in that era, compared to getting a very functional Unix-a-like for free out of commodity hardware. Terrible and exp
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I’m 50, and I can tell you exactly what happened - AOL. Plus the death of the BBS. Usenet started changing radically in the late 90s, and the independence BBS operators had wasn’t appealing enough to keep them running dial up services, nor
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by vessenes 10mo ago
The cli subscription actually actively cannibalizes the API business in my experience. I think this is a product decision: if you use it to code, they want to control the user experience. If you use it to back up 100,000 MAUs, then they wan
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Should have checked, thanks for the correction. I stand by my liking of how they talked to each-other
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by vessenes 10mo ago
This is nicely written, and the style is fresh after a year of reading LLM writing whenever I click. Interesting to me is the audience - this article is appropriate for a middle schooler on up to read, and assumes no technical knowledge at
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by vessenes 10mo ago
@dang original title is “How Sambas Was Written”, which makes more sense
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Re Jeff and Sanjay - they recently were on Dwarkesh together I believe - so it looks like the partnership is still going strong. Regarding Dean over Ghemawat facts, the vibe from the convo is that Sanjay is the (very slightly) junior partne
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I'm not a medical researcher, but I am a computer guy; I was struck by something very different in the papers - the abstracts at least refer to "AI CAD" as what they're testing - no software information, no versioning -
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Regardless of title, it’s a good little reminder that I hadn’t thought of - skills can use skills. This makes sense - a skill is just a pre-loaded context Claude instance, so why not? But I also tend to think of one skill at a time. Thanks
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Check out Steve Yegge’s pace with beads and gas town - well in excess of that.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Is this true? I mean it’s true for any specific workflow, but I am not clear it’s true for all workflows - the power set of all workflows exceeds any single architecture, in my mind.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Yes, definitely. I spent about half that time poking around, understanding the setup, doing some bug fixing and put in a PR for gas town itself, although I used Claude Code separately for making the PR. I pointed it at a Postgres time serie
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I put in 15 hours or so with gas town this weekend, from just around the 0.1 release. Think of as an extended bipolar-optimism-fueled glimpse into the future. Steve's MO is laid out in the medium post - but basically, it's okay to
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by vessenes 10mo ago
That was my first reaction reading your story -- "outside partner probably paid 5 to 10x for it" -- if you'd gotten up to 50k, you would have had a problem. :)
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Not a professional, but an avid researcher/reader. These papers look promising, but a few initial strikes - first, the research itself was clearly done with agentic support; I'd guess from the blog post and the papers that actuall
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by vessenes 10mo ago
p.s. I pushed a small update. Thanks for the nudge
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I guess if your purpose of the site is to make yourself feel good about gold they chose the proper index. Agreed if you want to compare the decidedly non-dividending gold as an asset class TR makes sense.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
The site appears to be parody fyi
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by vessenes 10mo ago
It’s just s&p 500 index value divided by gold to get a “gold native” number. The compounding represented here would be the growth of the companies that has been “compounded” as a result of their internal investment
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I definitely accept prs
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by vessenes 10mo ago
But that is an inside deal - same founder, I believe
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Looking at their boxes, I'd guess 20-ish%, once the labor costs of designing the boxes is out of the picture. I imagine George doesn't take a salary, or at least takes only a small one. They have a contract with AMD as well. I&#x2
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Or Colin Chapman at Lotus: "Simplify, then add lightness." Could just be wise advice :)
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Cool! I'd suggest you slap a CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-NC-SA license on it if you have a second; doesn't take long and lets everyone know your preferences.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
interesting. the javascript had a category name - I'm guessing my vibe employee added in category search as a feature.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Thomas, I love this! I vibe coded a bunch of quality of life improvements to this and put it up here: https://vessenes.github.io/2025is45x45/ . Note - you didn't license your original page; I've released my m
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by vessenes 10mo ago
I think this is precisely why I locked in so hard on the essay; I got suspicious right from the gate. Interesting troll to have uncanny valley AI about a real and unusual thing right up front. There should be a word for it.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Okay you had me at line—breaks. Rage. Then I saw it was civil disobedience, and I relaxed. Enjoy the em-dash lifestyle; it chose you apparently.
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by vessenes 10mo ago
Boy I had a liminal moment looking at these photos and videos - this all could easily have been a fun AI media project. In fact, I think the first photo used outpainting (“street background expanded” reads the subtitle). I’m enjoying my las

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